irulan

so after looking in this thread I decided to buy I met System I before it was reckoned. It arrived today, and I am kind of disappointed with the print quality. It looks like there was an issue getting the blacks lined up during the screenprinting process. I posted a pic below, do you guys think that I should contact them?

AGrant311

irulan wrote:so after looking in this thread I decided to buy I met System I before it was reckoned. It arrived today, and I am kind of disappointed with the print quality. It looks like there was an issue getting the blacks lined up during the screenprinting process. I posted a pic below, do you guys think that I should contact them?

Yes, contact and send the pictures. My copy of this shirt printed cleanly, so if they did additional printings, looks like a bad print job.

bandit55

My blacks seem to not quite be lined up either and I ordered the first day possible, but I chose smartpost shipping so I don't know if that meant I got a later batch. My blacks seem a little more lined up then in AGrant311's, but are still not completely lined up and don't look as lined up as cmdixon2's photos. If you look at AGrant311's photo the lower right smiley face's eye brows are black and then have yellow and then the shirt color asphalt. The same smiley face on my shirt has the black line slightly above the asphalt shirt so it's not lined up completely, but there is no yellow showing so that leads me to believe the lines are more lined up than in AGrant311's yet they don't look as lined up as cmdixon2's. Those of you that said your's printed fine, are the blacks on your smiley faces lined up EXACTLY or are the blacks lined up slightly high leaving bits of shirt blank asphalt beneath them? A friend is borrowing my camera, but I'll post pics when I can.

AGrant311

bandit55 wrote:My blacks seem to not quite be lined up either and I ordered the first day possible, but I chose smartpost shipping so I don't know if that meant I got a later batch. My blacks seem a little more lined up then in AGrant311's, but are still not completely lined up and don't look as lined up as cmdixon2's photos. If you look at AGrant311's photo the lower right smiley face's eye brows are black and then have yellow and then the shirt color asphalt. The same smiley face on my shirt has the black line slightly above the asphalt shirt so it's not lined up completely, but there is no yellow showing so that leads me to believe the lines are more lined up than in AGrant311's yet they don't look as lined up as cmdixon2's. Those of you that said your's printed fine, are the blacks on your smiley faces lined up EXACTLY or are the blacks lined up slightly high leaving bits of shirt blank asphalt beneath them? A friend is borrowing my camera, but I'll post pics when I can.

cmdixon2

bandit55 wrote:My blacks seem to not quite be lined up either and I ordered the first day possible, but I chose smartpost shipping so I don't know if that meant I got a later batch. My blacks seem a little more lined up then in AGrant311's, but are still not completely lined up and don't look as lined up as cmdixon2's photos. If you look at AGrant311's photo the lower right smiley face's eye brows are black and then have yellow and then the shirt color asphalt. The same smiley face on my shirt has the black line slightly above the asphalt shirt so it's not lined up completely, but there is no yellow showing so that leads me to believe the lines are more lined up than in AGrant311's yet they don't look as lined up as cmdixon2's. Those of you that said your's printed fine, are the blacks on your smiley faces lined up EXACTLY or are the blacks lined up slightly high leaving bits of shirt blank asphalt beneath them? A friend is borrowing my camera, but I'll post pics when I can.

Mine is lined up perfectly, nothing odd about it. Sounds like you just got a bad print. Take a picture of the area you think looks bad and email it to Woot. They have excellent customer service and will most likely send you a new shirt.

jasneko

Sorry these aren't the best photos, and the shirt's a little rumply and creased straight out of the envelope, but wanted to quickly post Lantern Lights! It feels unbelievable to actually see it on a shirt!

tjost

jasneko wrote:Sorry these aren't the best photos, and the shirt's a little rumply and creased straight out of the envelope, but wanted to quickly post Lantern Lights! It feels unbelievable to actually see it on a shirt!

I gotta say I think I like the shirt better then the flat art. The shirt seems too have a little more depth to it, maybe cause the colors of the inks were a little different then the derby comp. Good job!

jasneko

tjost wrote:I gotta say I think I like the shirt better then the flat art. The shirt seems too have a little more depth to it, maybe cause the colors of the inks were a little different then the derby comp. Good job!

Thanks Tjost! I noticed the colors seemed a little different also... though the same pantone colors were in the comps. Thinking about it... with nearly every shirt I've bought, the colors seem a bit more muted on the shirt than they did onscreen in the comps - maybe that's just the nature of back-lit monitors?

Overall I was pleased with the print - especially the depth of the lanterns. You probably can't really tell from the photo I took, but they have a very nice flow and movement to them, especially on the female form. The shirt seemed to come to life when it was worn, which was pretty neat!:D

sokowa

jasneko wrote:Thanks Tjost! I noticed the colors seemed a little different also... though the same pantone colors were in the comps. Thinking about it... with nearly every shirt I've bought, the colors seem a bit more muted on the shirt than they did onscreen in the comps - maybe that's just the nature of back-lit monitors?

Overall I was pleased with the print - especially the depth of the lanterns. You probably can't really tell from the photo I took, but they have a very nice flow and movement to them, especially on the female form. The shirt seemed to come to life when it was worn, which was pretty neat!:D

jmmbell1987

tjost wrote:I gotta say I think I like the shirt better then the flat art. The shirt seems too have a little more depth to it, maybe cause the colors of the inks were a little different then the derby comp. Good job!

Agreed. The light looks much better in print as well. Congrats, Jasneko!

cmdixon2

[quote postid="3791798" user="jasneko"]Sorry these aren't the best photos, and the shirt's a little rumply and creased straight out of the envelope, but wanted to quickly post Lantern Lights! It feels unbelievable to actually see it on a shirt!

Wow, that shirt really turned out awesome! I'm impressed! I thought it looked nice before, but it looks way better actually worn as a shirt. Glad you got your print, Jasneko.

Mavyn

JadenKale wrote:Hey Mavyn, was your tee missing the very top of the little ele on the carosel? everything was great as I pulled mine out, and then you can see they didn't pull the ink quite to the top of the screen.

The top is good, but there's one elephant that has a black smudge. I hadn't had time to check their policy on replacements...and really, it's not obnoxious, just looks like normal aging.

Edit to add: if I remember, I'll take a better picture of the tee. The above was taken primarily to satisfy whining from some quarters about not having seen my hair cut, so the focus obviously wasn't the tee. ;)

Koops12

Hey, if anyone has bought and received "Sullen", could you please say how it printed? Pictures would be nice as well, a lot of people say it won't print like the design, but I'm still interested to see how it looks and possibly grab one before it reckons.

jaideam

Koops12 wrote:Hey, if anyone has bought and received "Sullen", could you please say how it printed? Pictures would be nice as well, a lot of people say it won't print like the design, but I'm still interested to see how it looks and possibly grab one before it reckons.

cat thing

I just got my Live Not On Evil shirt and it is ridiculously awesome. My boyfriend hates my habit of buying Woot shirts, and he tried to hide the mail from me when he saw a Woot package in it, but once I opened it, even he agreed that it really is an awesome shirt. I think it is even better than the pictures people have posted already

cat thing

awww no... you make me sad =(
He doesn't hate woot. He just thinks I buy too many shirts... and I do buy too many shirts because I can barely stuff them all in my drawer. He has some woot shirts too...

Jestik

cat thing wrote:awww no... you make me sad =(
He doesn't hate woot. He just thinks I buy too many shirts... and I do buy too many shirts because I can barely stuff them all in my drawer. He has some woot shirts too...

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